Julie Heffernan

Biography

Julia Heffernan, Ph.D., taught middle and high school social studies and language arts for eight years and was an education administrator for another eight years before beginning an academic career in education studies. Heffernan is the Graduate Director of Curriculum and Instruction for the teacher licensing program UOTeach. She has been teaching future teachers about the social context of schooling for seven years.

Heffernan's primary research interests are in gender and sexuality studies in education through the lens of post-structural feminist theory and queer theory. Her research considers sexual orientation and gender identity in curriculum, classrooms and larger educational settings.

In 2010 Heffernan developed UOTeachOUT an annual education studies conference on gender identity and sexual orientation issues in education. This conference is now entering it's sixth year as an extension of her course Education as Homophobia. More information can be found at http://uoteachout.com/

Education

Ph.D., 2010, University of Oregon.Major: Critical and Socio-Cultural Studies in Education

MA, 2004, University of OregonMajor: Educational Leadership

Administrative Certification, 2004, University of Oregon.

Teaching Certification, 1998, Southwest Texas State

BA, 1990, Catholic University of AmericaMajor: English Literature

Honors and Awards

2016, 2014 College of Education Diversity Award for service to the college by advancing work in the area of diversity

Heffernan, Julia and Gutierez-Schmich, T. (2014) We Recruit: A Queer Pedagogy for Teacher Educators. Chapter 12 in Voices of LGBTQ Students and Teachers: Changing the Culture of Schooling, Anna Wilson and Veronica Bloomfield, Ed.

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